movie recommendations

[Fiach]

A third film I rented was The Shaft. And that's exactly what this B-grade stinkeroo of a movie should have gotten before they wasted perfectly good celluloid filming it. It's about a killer elevator (yes). What can I say - I neglected to take my specs to the shop so I couldn't read the blurb properly and got the wrong idea about it. God knows what sad Hitchcock wannabe chundered up that drivel. If you have any respect for your own intelligence, don't go near it >:((

LOL  :-D

[Art Blade]

 ^+-+ :-X

[Fiach]

Saw a good movie last night, Rounders, starring Matt Damon, it centers around the world of poker and hustling, a well made and well acted movie with a good story.

[Art Blade]

Once I find sufficient time again, I'll be checking this topic out once again and see if I can get to watch some of those films recently mentioned.  :)


Apart from The Shaft, perhaps.  :-D

[mandru]

fragger, The Shaft sounds almost as bad as the 1983 stinkeroo called The Lift.  What's with all these killer elevator movies?   ????

Poor old Elisha Otis must be spinning in his grave.   ;D

[fragger]

 ;D

[PZ]

I've mentioned it before but this is one of my favorite movies: Duel - found an original 1971 trailer

Duel (1971) Theatrical Trailer

[Fiach]

A very tense movie, it had a coulple of really bad remakes, still as usual the original is always the best. To me its one of the few Stephen King stories that transferred well to film.

[Binnatics]

I remember having seen that movie.... Indeed a very intense story. You can feel the doubt and the fear in that car. Somehow from the start you feel it's getting worse until the unevitable, but the whole movie you hope that it won't.

Hey, by the way, we should have a smiley expressing fear

[PZ]

Hey, by the way, we should have a smiley expressing fear

Good idea  :-X

[PZ]

A very tense movie, it had a coulple of really bad remakes, still as usual the original is always the best. To me its one of the few Stephen King stories that transferred well to film.

That might be because Stephen King did not do the original story, which was written by a chap named Richard Matheson, who also converted it to screen. 

Evidently one of the original Duel trucks still survives - see a photo in this Wiki

[Fiach]

My bad, Brain Fart madness, I was thinking of Throttle  :D  8-X  :-()

[PZ]

are you kidding?  I have those all the time 

[Binnatics]

Going to the movies today; Tintin! I'll let you know how it was!!  ^-^

[JRD]

Hehehe... I'm going to the movies too... "La piel que habito" , the new Almodóvar movie. I'll let you know how it was!  ^-^

[Fiach]

Going to the movies today; Tintin! I'll let you know how it was!!  ^-^

Went to it yesterday, I never heard of the character before, the kids really enjoyed it, I was a bit bored with it myself, from a tech point of view, the characters were VERY lifelike for he most part, the twins were obviously caricatures though and not intended to be lifelike.

Hope you enjoy it mate :)

[Art Blade]

Wow, this time Fiach slipped in a message before I could hit "submit"  :-()

Alright, Binnatics and JRD, all that is really moving  :-() Have fun, guys  ^-^

[Binnatics]

Tintin was great fun!!! I agree with you Fiach, the characters are extremely lifelike. I was shocked by that. Wonder what type of processors and gfx cards they've used to create stuff like that ^-^

I enjoyed the movie because it was a 'nostalgic moment' for me. I wasn't the only one: the cine was full of "comic-book reading fathers" who were taken to the movies by their kids, just like me  ^-^

The story is a mix-up of 3 of the books; "The secret of the unicorn", "The treasure of Scharlaken Rackham" and "The Crab with the golden scissors". They made one smooth rolling story out of these 3 books, and took quite some literary freedom to make it a good movie-story. They als 'invented' some new parts in the story to show off with their 3D-Animatical powers. They invented a falcon that had a great role in stealing the paper clues to the treasure --> Spectacular cat 'n mouse game through a Maroc city.

A great part of this movie was the well known humor around Captain Haddock and, of course, both special detectives Johnson and Johnsson. I like Haddocks humor best: He's the clown that makes the Tintin books worth reading again and again, and again. They used some exact copies of the comicbook-jokes in the movie. Very nice to see them again in moving 3D this time. I remember the laughs I've had because of cap. Haddock when he tells the story of his ancestor, fighting the pirates. Every few minutes this ancestor took a break in his heroic fight against the pirates to take a zip of whiskey until Tintin thought it was enough and prevented the cap. to drink anymore during his story ^-^ :-X

All together it was a well spent afternoon and to all Tintin nostalgics I'd recommend it strongly. And... there will be a sequel ;)

[Art Blade]

good to know you had some fun :)  :-X

[Fiach]

Wow, this time Fiach slipped in a message before I could hit "submit"  :-()

Alright, Binnatics and JRD, all that is really moving  :-() Have fun, guys  ^-^

BEWARE THE NINJA SPAMMER!

>:D

[Art Blade]

yeah, yeah, mate. Once in a lifetime.



:-D ;) :-()

[Fiach]

Ah, but you have to be lucky all the time, I just have to be lucky once  >:D

[Art Blade]

 

By the way, nice use of  >:D and  >:D hehe  :-D :-X

[fragger]

Watched a couple of films earlier tonight:

First was Sucker Punch. I had my trepidations about this going by the promotional material for it as it looked pretty ridiculous, like an S&M fetishist's wet dream caught on film, and in some ways it was, but even so it wasn't at all what I was expecting. I was mostly curious to see it for the lead actress Emily Browning as I remember her from an Aussie cop show called Blue Heelers some years before. Supposedly a psychological trip about a young female mental asylum inmate escaping into alternate realities and ostensibly an exploration of female empowerment, in reality I felt that the whole thing was just an excuse to film a bunch of male fantasy scenarios (no doubt the film maker's). It was a kind of interesting idea and definitely had some originality to it, and the fantasy sequences were pretty cool, like watching someone playing an out-there computer game, but the soundtrack got on my nerves after a while – the usual cacophonic mix of headbanging metal and rap-crap that all too often passes for a soundtrack these days (enough of that stuff already!) Still, I kind of enjoyed it once - I wouldn't bother watching it a second time. If you're into butt-kicking hotties the fantasy scenes may appeal to you (and some of you seem to like this kind of thing from what I've seen in the Saints Row 3 thread 8-X) but you'll have to suffer through a lot of silly melodrama to get to them. I will say this for it though, there was some innovative photography in it, which I always appreciate. And it was certainly imaginative. And it had Scott Glenn, who I've always liked.

I followed that up with Super 8. The implausibly precocious kids at the beginning bugged me, then the movie got intriguing for a while, then the implausibly precocious kids really began to bug me before the whole thing degenerated into a typically formularic Spielbergian schmaltzfest. Actually, J. J. Abrams wrote and directed and Spielberg produced, but it had Spielberg's fingerprints all over it. I wouldn't watch this one a second time either, and kind of wished I hadn't bothered the first time. Honestly, what is it with Spielberg and his treacly kiddie worship? He should have scotched that formula after the stomach-turningly sickly ET - which this was, revisited, yet again, after a fashion, for the umpteenth time, sorta kinda.

Not a terribly satisfying night of movie watching all round. I should have gotten into some serious gaming instead... ::)

[Fiach]

I was quite disappointed by Suckerpunch the first time I saw it, but it was better second time 'round, the action sequences were total BS and I think did a great dis-service to what could have been a great story, but hot chicks are hot chicks, so it wasnt a total bust :)